Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-09-24
GENERAL NEWS.

On the Heights of Abraham, where Wolfe
and MonUcalm fought long ago, a lot of
sailors from the French naval ship La
Miuerve and a like squad from the British
admirals flagship BelIerOphon met recent
ly. A riot was started quickly, knives and
but were pOWerless, and q guard from the
French vessel had to beseut ashore to ''rOund
up" the belligerent Gauls- Two of the
English sailors We're seriously cut with
knives.
The coachman is sat it again." In New
Haven, Connecticut, negro professor of
ne ine art of chariOteering has married and
run away with Miss Mary Tucker, his en-
plOyer's daughter.
In the case of George Hamilton, one of the
strikers charged with Wrecking d Missouri
Pacific tram IN 1886, verdict of not guilty
has been given at Wyandotte, Kansas.
The American astronomers who went out
to China to witness the total eclipse of the
sun were poorly compensated for the long
voyage. Soon after the eclipse began. the
the whole affair became dOdbly echps-d by
dense clouds. and 20 remained to th- end.
The scientists enjoyed sensation something
IKE LOOKING Tor daylight IN a WlndOWless
cellar, but did not add much TO the worlds
stock Of astronomic knowledge.
Henry Gunst, timer, fell from the roof
o a three-stOry building IN Pittsburgh, and
wc7 killed. His brother John was danger
Ously injured.
The clerk of the superior court IN New
York city has refused to take Johann MOst's
declaration to become q citizen. Most is an
avOWed anarchist and it is matter of
public nOt0riety that he is not the sort of per
son who can become a good citizen or
honestly take the oath of a citizen with in
tent TO keep it.
A Washington dispatch makes some inter
esting statements in contradiction or criti-
cism OF EscObedO's recently published
attack on the memory OF the unfortunate
Macmillan. The dispatch asserts that
President JuareZ. General DiaZ, and the then
minister of Justice, Iglesias, fOvOred spariug
MaXlmlllan's life, but EscobedO, who mad
negotiated for the emperOr's betrayal by
Lopez, insisted upon his execution. AIeiia,
who was included in EscObedO's relentless
policy IL Is said. once spared that generals
hfe when he had made him prisoner, and
assisted him TO leave the country. DOcu-
meuts referred to IN the dispatch are said
to show that the ed. ct which condemned to
death all armed opponents of the empire
was the work of Bazaiue, the French com
mduuer, and that 10 was revoked by
MaXlmlllan as soon as 1t came to his
knowledge. The documents, il is asserted.
dlsprOve EscObedO's charge that MaNimil-
ian sought to save himself by conniving at
the betrayal OF his army. In Is further IN
umatad that the recent move of EScobedO
was lnstgated as much by hatred of
President DiaZ as by desire to WhiteWash
Lopez.
The Ute war being over, the Colorado
people have now TO face the enormous bills
incurred in procuring supplies and equip
ments. ] hese We're bought, it is said, at
recklessly eXtraVagaut prices, and IN guam
titles exceeding all possibilities of actual
need, and have been or are being sold again
for mere fraction of their cost. An Oblig-
ing congressman promises TO help the state
out of the hole, If possible, by asking
congress to vote the money. The job is a
little too fresh and too scandalOus to be
successful just yet After awhile doubtless
who stole COlOrOw's cattle.
Norway's contingent at the Chicago
eucampmeut viii consist of six officers and
fourteen guardsmen. They are on their
way there.
1t has been decided by the treasury depart
ment that corn can not be shipped by vessel
to a Canadian port and there put on a rail
road and carried through Canada and to its
destination in the United States without
custOm-hOuse entry. But on arrival at a
United States port, after such transportation
il may be entered free of duty on proof of
identity, as a domestic product exported
and returned IN the same condition.
Mr. O'Brfen's cell at Cork is described us
something of "blaek hole" with little
light, only nine by four feet IN dimensions.
By the fall of a pile of lumber in the street
railway eugine-hOuss in Kansas City six men
We're severely injured. Their names are
John II. Kenneth, John Logan, w. II.
smith, James Good, L. w. Whitsitt, and
Isaac Werner.
On Monday night the body of Valentine
llObsAi was run over and mangled by q
Lake Shore train at South Bend, Indiana.
twas supposed the man had been murdered
and placed on the'track.
"Blinky" Morgan, one of the Cleveland
fur robbers, was arraigned at Ravenna, Ohio
on a charge of numbering Detective HULL
gan, and entered a plea of not guilty. His
. confederates, Coughlin and Robinson, also
pleaded not guilty 10 the same charge. The
trials Will take place in October.
Major TOmisics and Captain SCHNEIDER,
of the hungarian army, have been arrested
for frauds IN the cOmmIssariat. Captain
SCHNEIDER committed suicide when taken to
prison. Official thieves in Hungary appear
to be more sensitive TO disgrace than
American boodlers. There are very few in
stances on recOd of public rOgues in America
committing suicide 7. cause of detection in
viliainy. They usually hire a high-priced
lawyer and eight the thing through or else
they take time by the forelock and skip to
Canada before their rascality has been dis
covered.